RE: [UC] Re: [phillyneighborhoods] Sign Up for Get on the Bus To urs Voter Registration

2004-09-14 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Are you trying to put down my Get Out The Vote effort at the country clubs and gun shows??? You left wingers can go there too if you want. (Most of you dirt encrusted miscreants probably won't be able to get into the country club though, but you can wait outside while we bring in the voter

RE: [UC] August in Iraq

2004-09-13 Thread Kyle Cassidy
you can see my photos of the Quaker society's boots protest/installation/project at the RNC here: http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/2004/rnc/ You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see

RE: [UC] Flee Market Tomorrow!

2004-09-12 Thread Kyle Cassidy
christy and i went with some listers to the powelton village flea market yesterday and had a most splendid time. i bought some books. christy maxed out on the bling bling. i also got a Mr. T rubber stamp. jealous much? the flea markets is fun. kc You are receiving this because you are

RE: [UC] Hope to see some of you...Hugs in Flight

2004-09-11 Thread Kyle Cassidy
feisty diva was indeed helping to greet guests. my next show is october 4th but more importantly, one of the people who came to the show is opening up a gallery in west philadelphia. more on that when i know it. Announcing that wine and light comestibles will be served, never hurts. Was the

RE: [UC] Hope to see some of you at my opening tonight

2004-09-10 Thread Kyle Cassidy
. Are you telling me you took Mr. Hugs in to your home, and then threw him in the air for photos? I'm shocked. Pete On Friday, September 10, 2004, at 01:10 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote: http://www.kylecassidy.com/air Afif Gallery, 1903 South Street, 5:00-8:00. It's not in West Philly, however

RE: [UC] abandoned (?) car

2004-09-06 Thread Kyle Cassidy
when i had a car (thank the powers that be i no longer do) i'd often go more than a month without driving it. i have a driveway though. -Original Message- From: Stephen Fisher To: University City List Sent: 9/6/2004 4:10 PM Subject: [UC] abandoned (?) car Hi, There's a car that has

RE: [UC] Held for 49 Hours, Part 1

2004-09-05 Thread Kyle Cassidy
sadly, i must say this echoes my own experience at the RNC. I was covering it for silicon alley radio as a photographer. while at the WTC the reporter I was working with was interviewing a guy with a ralph nader sign and the whole lot of us were arrested for walking more than 2 abreast on the

[UC] new neighbors, old tactic

2004-09-05 Thread Kyle Cassidy
so ... leaving the house yesterday, i noticed a new pile of trash out in front of my house. sigh. kc You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html.

RE: [UC] Bicycle News from All Over

2004-08-28 Thread Kyle Cassidy
A fifth person was arrested for passing out fliers on their behalf. good thing they got _that_ miscreant. i was covering the RNC here in philly in 2000 and it started out with the police showing admirable restraint and good sense, but by the second day, i think a lot of that turned into

RE: [UC] University City District head resigning

2004-08-23 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Eric T. Goldstein has resigned his position as executive director for University City District in West Philadelphia. His replacement, Mr. Hugs an orange tabby, has promised lidless garbage cans and to help in the proliferation of both mouse production and area koy ponds. Mr. Hugs spent the

[UC] burglary 46th walnut

2004-08-15 Thread Kyle Cassidy
just a heads up, our next door neighbors got burglarized yesterday evening. someone climbed their chain link fence and wrenched the window open, possibly with a crowbar, and stole a laptop. the laptop had been, in weeks past, sitting in the same place near an un-curtianed window while not

RE: [UC] lack of water pressure [article link]

2004-08-15 Thread Kyle Cassidy
oddly enough, i was in chinatown when i heard there had been a watermain break. i turned right to KYW, but, madddeningly, all they said a water main break in west philadelphia, and flooding in a ten block radius they never said 10 blocks around where. i was worried. -Original Message-

RE: [UC] UCD Debate

2004-08-12 Thread Kyle Cassidy
heck, they should put me in charge of UCD. i'd run the place like german clockwork from the bar upstairs at abysinna. but i'd make it non-smoking first so i wouldn't smell like an ash try while barking out orders. You want a zoning ordinance do you? Well, let's see what Mr. Hugs says. If he

[UC] Stray kittens - you know you want one (cute cuddly photos!)

2004-08-10 Thread Kyle Cassidy
What is it with West Philadelphia? Why do people toss their cats out? What are the chances of the Vet School sponsoring a spay and release program in the hizzle? In any event, a kind soul working at the Ralston House found four new kittens living under a plant in her garden. She brought them into

[UC] scrunch's girlfriend

2004-08-09 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Much has been said about scrunch's new love interest, the imaginatively named 1ear. She needs a human too: http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/strays/1ear/1.jpg http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/strays/1ear/2.jpg Scrunch just wants some lurv.

[UC] karen's flower pot full of stray cats ....

2004-07-17 Thread Kyle Cassidy
... now has one less stray cat in the flower pot: http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2004/tiggy.jpg tiggy has a home. that leaves milkshake. you know you want him. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information,

RE: [UC] Doesn't it make you feel proud?

2004-07-08 Thread Kyle Cassidy
i think i'm going to get it tattooed on my arm! now that i know i don't have to go all the way down to south street to get ink. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html.

[UC] score two more for the forces of evil

2004-06-22 Thread Kyle Cassidy
While we're trolling the middle east looking for evil dooers, I've discovered they're blythly hiding out in west philly gleefully commiting acts of figurative mayhem. As you may remember, I've had a long series of fences, shrubs and flowers crushed over the past two years. Well, yesterday

[UC] is the neighborhood getting more dangerous, or am i just spending more time weeding out front?

2004-06-21 Thread Kyle Cassidy
in any event. christy and i were standing out front on thursday (weeding the front yard) when three bike cops ride past shouting person with a gun! person with a gun! and before i know it, they'd jumped off of their bikes and tackled this kid, not four houses down from us, pulled a gun from his

RE: [UC] RE: parking authority gone CRAZY??

2004-06-14 Thread Kyle Cassidy
i have friends on 49th and locust who'd gotten several crazy parking tickets such as yours. i'm attaching an email that they sent out detailing their experiences, it's a fascinating read, there was a previous incident where they'd gotten two parking tickets at the same time 15 miles apart which

RE: [UC] Neighborhood Conservation District Bill passes City Coun cil

2004-06-04 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Under the legislation, a neighborhood conservation district can be sought in two ways: through a community group application, Is there any definition of a community group. It seems that I could get together with my next door neighbor and my friend Well, the Friends of Mr. Hugs have

RE: [UC] what do any of you know about trash anyway?

2004-05-27 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Dude, just go outside. The hizzle is filled with kittens. -Original Message- From: William Zardus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [UC] what do any of you know about trash anyway? Kyle: I'm out of squeak toys and I'm

[UC] trash along walnut at 46th...

2004-05-21 Thread Kyle Cassidy
So ... As you all know, I've been complaining about the enormous amount of trash generated by the building on the south east corner of 46th and walnut which blows everywhere and generally depresses me... http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/2004/trash4.jpg Some of you were very helpful in

RE: [UC] Cedar Park, SW Cedar Park and Squirrel Hill

2004-05-21 Thread Kyle Cassidy
http://westphillydata.library.upenn.edu/infoR_Neigh_SWCedarPark.htm Aw hell, I missed living in university city by twenty lousy feet. Although, I can now complain that those jerks in university city throw diapers out their window, while those of us in the more effete neighborhood of _walnut hill_

[UC] Tales from the bang bang club

2004-05-07 Thread Kyle Cassidy
So yesterday I'm coming out of my house and there's a woman on the sidewalk standing next to her car talking with great animation into a cell phone. It goes like this: so of course those two @[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s start shooting at each other, and whose door is it that gets shot? MINE of course.

RE: [UC] Fw: A google funny

2004-05-05 Thread Kyle Cassidy
It's called a google bomb you can do it to. Get fifteen or twenty friends to link a particular passage to a particular web page wait till the web crawlers have found your pages and kapow. The real question is when is google going to realize that any company with any initiative can do the same

RE: [UC] water heater question

2004-05-03 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Do you happen to have curbside fencing ? A lot of installers like to get over on dopes who have curbside fencing, especially if their last name is Diller or Cassidy. Alas, no. my curbside fencing has all been forceably removed by drunks and miscreants. Perhaps I can use the sawed apart halves of

RE: i actually saw my fence destroyed (was [UC] fence vandalism)

2004-04-28 Thread Kyle Cassidy
a few of the pickets had been kicked out of my little white picket fence surrounding my lovely butterfly bush on the evening when the most massive destruction occurred. i was sitting out on the front roof at about 11:00 at night one lovely summer evening enjoying the night air (i've found this a

RE: [UC] Kyle Casidd's Trash Problem: Is It Really the Neighbors? ??

2004-04-23 Thread Kyle Cassidy
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 9:26 AM To: 'Kyle Cassidy'; 'Charles H. Buchholtz'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [UC] Kyle Casidd's Trash Problem: Is It Really the Neighbors??? Hey- how about picking up some of that trash around the door-- and I don't want to hear about your evil, trash

[UC] My neighbors are in a bad mood ....

2004-04-20 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Cass and Zardus will be happy to know that Christy was out landscaping the yard over the weekend. Yesterday, however, when I got home, I discovered that some of our neighbors (quite possibly the ones we keep getting ticketed because they're dumping their trash in our yard) were unimpressed by her

[UC] Stray cat update

2004-04-14 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Well, he's not really a stray anymore and it's not really an update, but it gives me no end of pleasure to post photos of him. I give you happy mr hugs, who does not live under a car, thanks to several people on this list: http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/mr-hugs13.jpg

RE: [UC] Stray cat update

2004-04-14 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Oh my, jonathan, it appears that william zardus has hacked into your account and is sending email as you. i include this photograph of myself holding a power tool to asuage your fears though. http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/projects/this-old-goth-house/kitchen/ru

RE: [UC] paint colors

2004-04-06 Thread Kyle Cassidy
What's the scoop on the color palette along larchwood and such, I'm intreigued by all the bright, uncharacteristic, almost bizarre color schemes pink, blue, purple, etc. is this one painter or a group of conspirators? kc -Original Message- From: Richard Hotchkiss [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [UC] Is this why we live in an urbane community instead of so me suburb?

2004-04-01 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Homeowners are also obligated to live by the association's rule book, also known as covenants, conditions and restrictions (CCRs). An elected, volunteer board of directors is responsible for enforcing these rules. Would this mean my neighbors couldn't put their trash in front of my house

RE: [UC] More stray cat photos ....

2004-04-01 Thread Kyle Cassidy
a list of everyone who knew you before you were married and still a man. I'll contact them and see if we can gather everyone together at a common time and place. In the meantime, I'll pray for you. WRZ Original Message Follows From: Kyle Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [UC] More stray

RE: [UC] More stray cat photos .... (wild cats in the hizzle)

2004-04-01 Thread Kyle Cassidy
To keep this cromulent to university city, I should add that watson, aka mr hugs was part of the west philly stray/abandoned cat community who I brought in hoping to find his real owner. Had he been a lost/abandoned dog I probably would have done the same thing, but west philadelphia doesn't have

RE: [UC] Property Theft

2004-03-26 Thread Kyle Cassidy
We had a car in our driveway broken into last week and the cd player stolen. In the 10 years I've lived here, this is the first time something like that has happened. People throwing trash in my yard is a daily occurance, but this was the first theft. kc You are receiving this because you

[UC] 10 lb bag of iams dog food in exchange for good deed

2004-03-26 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Hey kids -- I accidentally bought 10 lbs of iams weight control food for _dogs_ rather than cats. My girls won't touch it, though mr. hugs keeps sticking his head in the bag and making muffled yowling noises. The food is free to the first person who comes by to get it and performs some good deed.

RE: [UC] Wanted -- Concrete Planter

2004-03-26 Thread Kyle Cassidy
i saw a guy with a shopping cart two days ago, though it was piled full of aluminum. it didn't occur to me until just now, but maybe that's what happened to my downspout One of the Mad Mex waitresses told me that they recently had a guy run out on a $60 tab and that it was actually the second

RE: [UC] Trash on the Streets

2004-03-26 Thread Kyle Cassidy
While there are a few chickens around 46th and walnut keeping me awake at night, I think most of the bones come from styrafoam containers. I've seen them in this egg stage on my front steps and sidewalk once a week or so. Though last week, one of my neighbors threw a freaking _meatball sandwitch_

RE: [UC] Pricing people out

2004-03-23 Thread Kyle Cassidy
I agree. The PENN program has helped way more than it hurt. Increasing property values always does. i agree as well. anticdotally, i now hear very few gunshots when 10 years ago, it was a 3x weekly experience. now, when a store opens up in the super 7 lot (46th and walnut) whose top business

RE: [UC] best pizza joint that delivers

2004-03-15 Thread Kyle Cassidy
a slight non-sequitor, but i really like the veggie grinder from pasqualie's on 43rd and walnut. I can't vouch for their pizza. Though, I should add, you can make your own, it's fun and exciting! http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/projects/cooking/pizza/index.html You are receiving this

[UC] Creative solutions to parking problems

2004-03-10 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Over the past couple of years I've been photographing creative solutions to parking problems in a rather haphazard manner on my way to and from work. Many people have noticed that the city has reserved parking for them in West Philly and gladly take advantage of it. A few of the photos are here:

affording houses in west philly (Was RE: [UC] not comprehending: Taxes in perspective ... )

2004-03-10 Thread Kyle Cassidy
William Zardus said: The poor are definitely getting poorer and same sex marriages will add to the overall effect. I must say, I completely agree. All those guys with two incomes and no kids will rocket into the upper reaches of the income brackets leaving all the hetero's, forced to bear

RE: [UC] Sunday at abbraccio: vegetarians

2004-03-05 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Mark said: Hi I give Roger Herman Kudos for his patience. Thanks I agree, it's rare to find a restaurant owner who cares at all. I'm excited about the non-smoking bar in ANY event. kc You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for

RE: [UC] Next get-togather

2004-03-05 Thread Kyle Cassidy
-Original Message- From: Mark Krull [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 4:10 PM To: Naomi; Mark Krull; Kyle Cassidy; Vincent/Roger; 'university City List ' Subject: Re: [UC] Next get-togather Hi Either day is fine with me. -Mark -Original Message- From: Naomi

RE: [UC] South Street Bridge

2004-02-04 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Geez, there's been a hole in the sidewalk big enough to drop a referigerator through for years now. Glad something's finally getting fixed. -Original Message- From: Gail Defendorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[UC] RE: penntrification vs. gentrification

2004-01-21 Thread Kyle Cassidy
S. brings up an interesting point. While I bought my house on the Penn plan, I'm definitely not affluent and couldn't have afforded to buy a house otherwise. GENTRIFICATION The restoration and upgrading of deteriorated urban property by middle-class or affluent people, often resulting in

RE: [UC] Plastic Recycling

2004-01-21 Thread Kyle Cassidy
I wonder if the recycling project has a guidline on the earliest permissible time to leave stuff for recycling. Al Airone, if you're following this thread, is there such a guidline. If so, what is it? Not sure about recycling, but a lot of my neighbors seem to be pretty keen on putting

RE: [UC] gentrification

2004-01-20 Thread Kyle Cassidy
well, when you're the gentry, it's a good thing! and now that i have a choice of trendy places to get a $9 martini, all i need is a parking spot for my Beemer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 1/20/2004 7:05 PM Subject: [UC] (no subject) I

RE: [UC] Hack is Back

2004-01-18 Thread Kyle Cassidy
no doubt he got it on the Penn plan. they don't show him driving the 898-RIDE shuttle in the t.v. show, but he's moonlighting there. it'll probably appear in an upcoming episode. -Original Message- From: HarvestMoon3 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 1/18/2004 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [UC] Hack is

RE: Fwd: [UC] RE: Hack Filming Notice

2004-01-08 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Speak for yourself. I love the fact the they chose our area to film in. Yeah. I like it too (though I must say, my car has not been relocated.) I just wish the show was, er, good. Kc You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for

RE: [UC] Shoveling sidewalks

2003-12-08 Thread Kyle Cassidy
Say Kyle could I call you to shovel my sidewalk at 49th and Locust the next time it snows. Well, my idea was you'd start shoveling there and I'd start shoveling at 46th and along the way people would look out their windows and think oh dear, they're shoveling my sidewalk. How embarrassing.

RE: [UC] Shoveling sidewalks

2003-12-08 Thread Kyle Cassidy
I have noticed, at least on my block, that the owner-occupied houses tend to shovel their sidewalks, whereas the rental properties remain unshoveled. Ding ding ding! In the past 8 years I've been in west philly, I've consistently met the same people on neighborhood cleanup day, and they're

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